Still Life with Flowers and Fruit - Jan van Huysum , c. 1715 (National Gallery of Art, Washingotn, DC) (Click on each image for enlarged views of the details.)
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Studio Visit - Cheryl Donegan [DIA Center for the Arts]
"In the expression of actual depth, the gradation, which is more or less regular on a wall, is not necessarily so in space. Here the appearance which, on a solid surface, would give the effect of undulation rather than flatness is admissible to any extent, subject only to the effect of chiaroscuro required in representing space. The in-and-in look which Rembrandt expresses so well might doubtless be regular, like a quiet evening sky, but he rarely, if ever, represented such unbroken effects. His depth [p. 325] is contrived on the same principle as its expression by accidentally placed objects would be conveyed--that is, its indications are irregular, undulating, and not in unbroken succession and order. The most distant point [if it be permitted so to distinguish such vague measure of distance], whether expressed by darkness, by inward light, by retiring colour, or by execution--by the mutual relation of semi-superposed pigment, or by lucid vehicle marking real depth--that most distant point or place represents what, in composition, would be the most distant object, and so of nearer points or places. " (Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock, [One-time President of the Royal Academy] . Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters [Formerly titled: Materials for a History of Oil Painting]. Vol. One. New York; Dover Publications, Inc. 1960 [Originally published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans in 1847. From the
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The Work Featured Above: The Month of October, tilling and sowing from the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures. These calendar images were "painted some time between 1412 and 1416 and are arguably the most beautiful part of the manuscript; it is certainly the best known, being one of the great art treasures of France. In terms of historical and cultural importance, it is certainly equal to more famous works such as the Mona Lisa, marking the pinnacle of the art . . . . The Tres Riches Heures was painted by the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Hermann and Jean. They came from Nimwegen in what is now Flanders but were generally referred to as Germans. Very little is known about them; they are believed to have been born in the late 1370s or 1380s and were born into an artistic family, their father being a wood sculptor and their uncle being an artist working variously for the French Queen and for the Duc de Bourgogne . . . . " (Click on the image above to go to the site where you can read more about the Tres Riches Heures and view the additional images.)
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